This is a collection of my writing and correspondence with a few bits of poetry and random thoughts mixed in. I started this blog after learning that some of my letters had an uplifting quality.
In the pages of this blog you will find my real life trials and tribulations, the nature of what I think is truth, and the dust and grit of my real life.

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Monday, July 1, 2013

Bitter Feelings

10th
July 2012

Dear Cassi,

The most frustrating part
of my life has to be that small things that should never be an issue tend to be
a major production. Such has been the case with the dishes. On Sunday Pickles
said he had done no dishes for two days. I started them after he went to sleep
and, taking them twenty minutes at a run, was still washing by six in the
evening. I’ll grant that somewhere in there I slept, I cooked; I did homework,
and laundry. Still I had to run the wash twice and wash most of it by hand.

This left a bitter feeling
in my gut and so when I returned home from work I had no want for food and went
directly to bed. I awoke at three in the hot afternoon and a pile of dishes
already waited in the sink. It was the plastic containers I had put frozen food
in so that Pickles would stop disgracing my kitchen with his cooking.

At four thirty I made
smoothies. The hot California air had dried my throat and made me lethargic in
my movements. I started this meal with red wine and berries which I made into a
froth so thick it had to be eaten with a spoon. This revived Pickles and I some
and gave us strength.

The next serving was
simpler, just cantaloupe and coconut water. I cut and froze that cantaloupe
when it was fresh and sweet so that the smoothie was a hair away from the melon.
With this I felt new life. The frozen nectar of fruit gave me some relief from
the heat and so I set about the house work again.

My life is a grind but who’s
isn’t these days. In the end I have to understand that if I want to live in a
clean house it just has to be up to me. The fact that out of Pickles and I only
one works is irrelevant.